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*The latest version of the electronic interchange format for business
documents is now an OASIS Standard.*
OASIS Members and other interested parties,

OASIS is pleased to announce the publication of its newest OASIS Standard,
approved by the members on 15 June 2021:

*Universal Business Language Version 2.3*
*OASIS Standard*
15 June 2021

Universal Business Language (UBL) is the leading electronic interchange
format for business documents. It is designed to operate within a standard
business framework such as ISO/IEC 15000 (ebXML) to provide a complete,
standards-based infrastructure that can extend the benefits of existing EDI
systems to businesses of all sizes.

The European Commission has declared UBL officially eligible for
referencing in tenders from public administrations, and in 2015 UBL was
approved as ISO/IEC 19845:2015.

Specifically, UBL provides:

- A suite of structured business objects and their associated semantics
expressed as reusable data components and common business documents.
- A library of schemas for reusable data components such as Address, Item,
and Payment, the common data elements of everyday business documents.
- A set of schemas for common business documents such as Order, Despatch
Advice, and Invoice that are constructed from the UBL library components
and can be used in generic procurement and transportation contexts.

Version 2.3 is a minor revision to v2.2 that preserves backwards
compatibility with previous v2.# versions. It adds new document types,
bringing the total number of UBL business documents to 91.

The TC received 4 Statements of Use from IBM, ClearView Trade, the Swedish
Procurement Agency, and Philip Helger.

*URIs*

The OASIS Standard and all related files are available here:

Editable source (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.xml

HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.html

PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.pdf

Code lists for constraint validation:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/cl/

Context/value Association files for constraint validation:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/cva/

Document models of information bundles:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/mod/

Default validation test environment:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/val/

XML examples:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/xml/

Annotated XSD schemas:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/xsd/

Runtime XSD schemas:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/xsdrt/

*Distribution ZIP file*

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose
specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can
download the ZIP file here:

https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.zip

Our congratulations to the members of the UBL TC on achieving this
milestone.

--
Chet Ensign

Chief Technical Community Steward

OASIS Open

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